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Coconut crab is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Coconut crab has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 10, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
October 11, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
September 25, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
August 7, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
October 10, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 15, 2004. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Coconut Crab* is the world's largest terrestrial arthropod?*
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Alex Myers (3 January 2022). "This giant club-snapping crab might be the scariest form of wildlife ever seen on a golf course". Golf Digest. Retrieved 4 January 2022. Although, as you can imagine, the crab we're about to show you isn't exactly any crab. It's a robber or coconut crab, and according to Wikipedia, it's "the the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world, with a weight of up to 4.1 kg."

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